Student facing two days of detention for creating what his teacher believed to be a KKK mask

KATY, TX - A high school student in Katy, Texas is sharing his story after he was given two days of detention for creating what his teacher believed to be a KKK mask.

The student says he's being unfairly punished making a funny mask out of newspaper.

"My teacher was outside on the phone, so I decided to make a mask out of my finished work because we didn't need it. I put it on my head, put two eye holes in it, and it was all fun in games," the student, Blake Alcede, said.

"We taped it on together. I didn't -- I thought it was just a regular mask, I didn't know what the KKK was in the beginning, so everybody was laughing at me, taking pictures, putting it on snapchat and stuff like that."

He claims he didn't know what the Ku-Klux-Klan was until his teacher told him it was a hate group.

"I'm 15, I shouldn't know everything."

The freshman was given the punishment after the teacher's explanation.

Now he and his dad are fighting the school's decision to punish him.

"That didn't happen, they referred him to the principal, the principal said that he's got two days of 3 hour after school detention each day, and I said that's not going to happen, I said this is a kid playing, and he didn't intentionally try to make a KKK mask, and she said well if he doesn't go he's going to be suspended," Jeremy Alcede, Blake's father, said.

"There would be consequences if they did something bad. This is crazy this is beyond crazy."

Student Lauren McClaure said, "It's a big part of American history, so I think, yeah, he should have known what was doing, and I think he did, probably."

Another student, identified as Gissel, said, "It's something they shouldn't make a joke of."

The incident is also under investigation by the school district.